[Quiet Man Cometh]

After books, songs, movies, this one was inevitable. Post a game you think everyone should play at least once. It can be a computer game or a console game, arcade game, board game if you want to, doesn't matter. Just state in your post which format the game is in.

Post only one at a time please, and wait for someone else to post first before posting again.

The list thus far...

Page 1 (posts 1-16)
1. The Elder Scrolls Franchise - Bethesda (PC, console)
2. Wizardry 8 - SirTech (PC)
3. Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 - Bioware (PC)
4. Vandal Hearts - Konami (PS)
5. Dragon's Dogma - Capcom (PS3, Xbox 360)
6. Devil May Cry - Capcom (PS2)
7. Diablo Franchise - Blizzard (PC/Mac)
8. Ratchet and Clank series - Insomniac (PS1/3)
9. Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2 - Bioware (PC/Mac)
10. Cards Against Humanity (card)
11. Talisman revised 4th Ed. - Fantasy Flight (board)

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12. Age of Mythology & Titans Exp. - Ensemble (PC)
13. Star Ocean Series - Square Enix (PS2)
14. World in Conflict series - Massive/Ubisoft (PC)
15. The Mana Khemia series - Gust (PS2)
16. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Frictional (PC/Mac)
17. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Silicon Knights/Nintendo (GameCube)
18. Fury of Dracula - Fantasy Flight (board remake, Orig. Games Workshop)
19. Cthullu Gloom - Atlas Games
20. Citadels - Fantasy Flight (Orig. French "Citadelles" by MultiSim)
21. Bloodborne - From Software (PS4)
22. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Rockstar (Console/PC)
23. Until Dawn - Supermassive Games (PS4)
24. We Know the Devil (Visual Novel)

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25. Ori and the Blind Forest - Date Nighto (Xbox One and PC)
26. Morphies Law - cosmoscopegames
27. Undertale - Toby Fox (PC)
28. Armello - League of Geeks (Comp/Console)
29. Dark Souls 3 - From Software (Comp/Console)



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1. Elder Scrolls Franchise, Bethesda (PC)

Can't really pick one, so yeah. All of them. I've played Morrowind, Daggerfall, and Skyrim and they'll all been good for more or less the same reasons. The open ended gameplay is the most freedom I've had in a game. Look! There's a mountain. I'm going to walk up to the top of it! I'm going to catch butterflies to make potions! I'm going to walk into the holy temple and kill the god-priest! Yeah, you can do those, or rather, try.

The games inevitably start out the same: you wake up, you are in prison for some reason, you get out of prison for some reason, and off you go. The details vary a little, but the basic premise is the same. There is a story, but it's up to you if you actually want to bother following it, and there's no irritating fairy friend to get mad at you if you don't.

Such as massive project each times means the games are always riddled with bugs that need patches and fixing, yet despite this the games are still popular, and the glitches are an accepted hazard. I've only played the PC versions so I can't say if the bugs propagate the console versions as well.

I have to add that the score is my favourite game music so far. The same theme can be heard in Morrowind and Skyrim (and Oblivion I'm told) but altered to match the tone or mood of the game. The Morrowind theme is something I'm hoping to learn to play one of these days.